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Filmmakers try to insert "intelligent design" back into the scientific debate -- without much success.According to Of Pandas and People, a textbook outlining the...
Researchers produce "pluripotent" stems cells from human skin cells, potentially removing ethical concerns for life-saving research.The battle over stem cell research is one of...
Red Rocks or Red Sox, it's all the same to Colorado in finding "home plate."The suburbs are coming! The suburbs are coming!
Private development adjacent...
A weekly look at weird, wacky and wonderous science news.Longer life for worms
Cellular defects in tiny worms used in scientific research may point the...
Distant mountains
Himalayas of Iapetus
The Cassini mission to Saturn has come within a thousand miles of the surface of the planet's third largest moon, Iapetus,...
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Greenback cutthroat trout. Really. Photo by Colorado Division of Wildlife
A decades long effort to prevent the extinction of the threatened greenback cutthroat trout in...
Location, location, location
Wolf near Blacktail Pond, Yellowstone National
Park; Jim Peaco, National Park Service
A main indicator of hunting success for Yellowstone National Park's wolves is...